To:THE BUREAU OF THE CENTRAL EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE[1]

Written:Written July 7 (20), 1917Published:First published in 1964 inCollected Works, Fifth (Russian) Ed., Vol. 49.

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Onlyjust now, at 3.15 p.m., July 7, I learned that a search was made
at my flat last night, despite the protests of my wife, by armed men who
produced no warrant. I register my protest against this and ask the Bureau
of the C.E.C. to investigate this flagrant breach of the law.

Atthe same time I consider it my duty to confirm officially and in
writing what, I am sure, not a single member of the C.E.C. can doubt,
namely, that in the event of the government ordering my arrest and this
order being endorsed by the C.E.C., I shall present myself for arrest at
the place indicated to me by the C.E.C.

VladimirIlyich Ulyanov(N. Lenin)Member of the C.E.C.

Petrograd, 7/VII.1917

[1]Thisletter was written by Lenin to the Bureau of the Central Executive
Committee of the All-Russia Soviet of Workers’ and Soldiers’ Deputies.

Onthe evening of July 7 (20) a meeting of C.C. members and a number of
Parry officials was held in the home of S. Y. Alliluyev, a veteran
Bolshevik workman, where Lenin was in hiding at the time. The meeting was
attended, among others, by Lenin, Nogin, Orjonikidze, Stalin and
Stasova. It was decided that Lenin was not to appear in the court of the
counter-revolutionary Provisional Government. On July 13–14 (26–27),
1917, the enlarged meeting of the C.C., R.S.D.L.P.(B.), followed by the
Sixth Congress of the Party, adopted a resolution against Lenin appearing
in court (seeThe Sixth Congress of the R.S.D.L.P.(B.). Minutes,
Moscow, 1958, p. 270).